[11] In Supp. Dods. _Old Plays_, Introd. to _Chester Plays_, ix.; _Latin Stories_, p. 100. [12] _An Answer to a Certain Libel, &c._, in Collier, II. 73. [13] As early as 1304 in Hamburg: Meyer, _Gesch. d. hamburg. Schul- und Unterrichtswesens im Mittelalter_, S. 197: cited in Creizenach, I. 391. [14] The Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, from the _Annunciation_ to the _Flight into Egypt_ (Ms., 1533), and the Weavers' Pageant of the _Presentation in the Temple_. [15] V. XXVI., XXVIII., XXIX., XXX., XXXI., XXXIII.; probably XXXII. Perhaps this playwright (if we may use the singular) rewrote XXXIV. I think he remodelled XXXV. and XXXVI., in the old metres. [16] XXVI., _The Conspiracy_, and IX., _Noah_,--abababab⁴cdcccd³. [17] XXXVI., _The Mortificacio_,--ababbcbc³d¹eee²d³. VII., _The Cayme_,--ababbc⁴d¹bcc⁴d². [18] Y. XI., W. VIII.; Y. XXII., W. XVIII.; Y. XXXVII., W. XXV.; Y. XXXVIII., W. XXVI.; Y. XLVIII., W. XXX. For particulars see Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith, Pollard, Hohlfeld's _Die Altenglischen Kollektivmisterien_, Anglia XI. [19] Such as stanza 57 in Wakefield XXIX. _Ascension_, and 97-100 in Wakefield XX. _Conspiracy_. [20] Cf. stanzas 1 to 4 with those that follow in Wakefield XXII., _Fflagellacio_; and stanza 6 of Wakefield XXIV. with those that precede it; and stanza 58 of Wakefield XXIX. with stanza 57. [21] XXX. _Judicium_, stanzas 16 to 48, 68 to 76. [22] XVI. _Herod_. [23] XX. _a, Conspiracy_. [24] Stanza 57 might just as well be arranged like stanza 58. [25] III., XII., XIII., XXI. [26] Minor passages in the nine-line stanza are II., 35, 36; XXIV., 1-5, 56-59; XXVII., 4 Passages in a closely similar stanza are XXII., 1-4; XXIII., 2; XXVII., 30. [27] _The Towneley Plays_, Introd., p. xxii. [28] _Die englischen Mysterien, Jahrb. rom. u. eng. Lit._, I. 153. [29] Ten Brink, _Eng. Lit._ II: i. 306. [30] I do not forget that belated _Tobias_ at Lincoln, 1564-66, nor the _Godly Queen Hester_ of 1561; but they have nothing to do with the case. [31] Rel. _Antiq._ II. 43.